We live in a world that often mistakes kindness for weakness.

The Kindness We’re Told to Outgrow is a quiet, heartfelt reflection — a companion to The Little Creature Who Didn’t Hit Back — written and read by Gay, under the whispering branches of the Rowan Tree.

This episode is for every gentle-hearted person who was told to “toughen up,” every parent trying to raise kind children in an unkind world, and every soul who’s learned the hard way that softness is not a flaw.

Through the lens of Moss’s woodland story, this episode explores:

-The difference between niceness and true kindness

-How to teach children that boundaries and compassion can coexist

-The adult struggle to stay gentle in a hard world

-The quiet strength of those who refuse to let life make them cruel

You’ll also be guided through a peaceful visualization — sitting beneath the great Rowan Tree with Moss, rediscovering your own safe and steady heart.

If you’ve ever been called “too soft,” “too forgiving,” or “too kind,” this story will remind you:

you’re not too much — you’re what the world still needs most.